How To Install Wildfly 15 On CentOS 7

Why Wildfly? I’ve recently come to realize that a huge miss in the development community is the Application Server of days past. NO! I’m not just being an old fart! If we’re to quickly prototype, shorten the user feedback loop, and work with our product owners and business people… Why would we spend oodles of time creating complex deployment strategies before the user even sees what we built? Why burn the runway and potentially the business along with it? [Read More]

NGINX + ModSecurity 3 + CentOS 7

WAF On A Budget

WIP: More To Come sudo yum install gcc-c++ pcre-devel zlib-devel make wget openssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel gd-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed GeoIP-devel gperftools-devel Microservices seem to be the talk of the town for almost all developers, and I’m no different. My usecase isn’t the traditional kind though. So, what’s my unorthodox plan? Well, I like to tinker and Docker has allowed me to speed up prototyping drastically. Only one thing was missing, and that’s ease of directing traffic to my experiments… Enter Kong. [Read More]